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At the caucus last night we made a resolution of such - If our 'well regulated militia' is our national guard, than we need to fight to make sure that some authoritarian can't come in, nationalize them and turn them against the people of their state. We also resolved that no national guard troops from another state be allowed to operate in a law enforcement capacity in our state. I think there's still too many in the DFL who think we should be reaching across the aisle but I say the time for that is done.
"Reaching across the aisle" despite decades of bad faith is how we got here. The time for that is indeed long past.
As far as the Framers of the Constitution's intent, it's very well known that they were vehemently opposed to tyranny, so if the federal government becomes such, the "free state" will clearly be those places that it is attempting to oppress.
If someone can't be held accountable to the law then we are living in a tyrannical state.
Milquetoast centrists will lie to themselves and say we're not there yet, but we absolutely are.